Did the supposedly-prestigious author, Jonathan Chait, put this together himself or did he farm it out to some neocon or Soros-operated anti-Russian NGO like The Atlantic Council? Regardless, one of the few remaining, sane, liberal journalists Michael Tracey sums this nonsense up well:

The only thing “mind-boggling” about this is that it won’t be immediately laughed off as nutty conspiracy theorizing. Because when conspiracy theories start to emanate from mainstream precincts, they’re no longer given that label pic.twitter.com/Uym6dVYdd6